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Bruno Ferraz Bartel
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Doctorate

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Practices and Politics of Culture

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Brazil | Portugal |Morocco

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Islam | Sufism | Morocco | Ritual | Performance

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Professor do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia da Universidade Federal do Piauí (PPGAnt/UFPI)

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Doctor in Anthropology - Fluminense Federal University (UFF). Member of the Institute for Comparative Studies in Institutional Conflict Management (INCT-InEAC) and of the Middle East Studies Center (NEOM) at UFF. Ethnographic research: Brazil (2009-2011): Rio de Janeiro. Morocco (2012, 2014 e 2016-2017): Sidi Ali, Rabat, Fez, Safi, Essaouira e Taroudant.

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Collaborator (2017-06-01)

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2024/01/01-

Rethinking the Role of Symbols in Religion: Efficacies, Communications, and Metaphors

2024

Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)

Universidade Federal do Piauí

2024/01/01-2025/12/31

Devotional Creativities: Sufi Dynamics in the Middle East and Brazil

SEI-260003/000211/2024

Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI)

Universidade Federal Fluminense - Campus do Gragoatá

public.financiers: Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ)

2023/01/10-

The power of aesthetics in religious and/or secular contexts: performance, emotion, and subjectivation

2023

Principal investigator

Universidade Federal do Piauí

2022/07-2023/09

Mystic Rites: musical performance in contemporary Moroccan Sufism

Chamada CNPq 25/2021 Bolsas no País

Post-doc

Universidade Federal Fluminense - Campus do Gragoatá

public.financiers: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

2022/07-2023/09

Mystic Rites: musical performance in contemporary Moroccan Sufism

Chamada CNPq 25/2021 – Bolsas no País

Post-doc

Universidade Federal Fluminense

public.financiers: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

2021/02/01-

Religion, Public Space and Devotional Practices: Religious communities and institutions in South America and North Africa

2021

Principal investigator

Universidade Federal do Piauí

2019/03-

Dynamics of Islam in South America and the Middle East

CNpq43573220188

public.financiers: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

2019/03-

Dynamics of Islam in South America and the Middle East

CNpq43573220188

Research Fellow

Universidade Federal Fluminense

public.financiers: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

2017/10-2018/12

Religion, Public Space and Conflicts: Muslim Communities and Identities in Brazil and the Middle East

Call Nº 16/2014 INCT/MCT/CNPq/CAPES/FAPs

Research Fellow

Instituto de Estudos Comparados em Administração Institucional Conflitos (INCT-InEAC)

public.financiers: Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico

2016/10/01-2017/09/30

Devotion, Knowledge and Power: Religion and Politics in tariqa Hamdouchia, Morocco

E-26/201.945/2016

PhD Student Fellow

Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (FAPERJ)

public.financiers: Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

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Journal article

Interpreting jinn’s actions: Ritual and Theological Knowledge in Moroccan Sufism

Bartel, Bruno, Siberian Historical Research. 2022. http://journals.tsu.ru/siberia/en/&journal_page=archive&id=2273&article_id=50916 . published

Book

Mystical Morocco: Performance and Ritual in the Hamdouchiya Sufi brotherhood

Bartel, Bruno, EDUFPI. Teresina. 2022. published

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The commoditization of Moroccan Sufism: aesthetic forms in tariqa Hamdouchiya

Bartel, Bruno Ferraz, Religião & Sociedade. 81 - 103. 1. 42. 2022. https://www.scielo.br/j/rs/a/rSqjW9trGYHNgDgwdTZddHq/ . published

Book chapter

"Being a good Muslim in Morocco" from the perspective of Mohammed VI's nationalism

Bartel, Bruno Ferraz, Political Culture and Islam: History and Representations. César Henrique de Queiroz Porto; Luiz Gustavo Soares Silva. Paco Editorial. Jundiaí, Brazil. 2021. published

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Rethinking Islam from America: reflections on ‘primitivism’ and ‘civilization’ in Sayyid Qutb

Bartel, Bruno Ferraz, Afro-Ásia. 431 - 468. 64. 2021. https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/afroasia/article/view/42019/24923 . published

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O santo e a cura: performances e subjetividades no mausoléu de Sidi ‘Ali ben Hamdouche, Marrocos

Bartel, Bruno Ferraz, Antropolitica - Revista Contemporanea de Antropologia. 218 - 245. 1. 48. 2020. https://doi.org/10.22409/antropolitica2020.0i48.a41994 . 10.22409/antropolitica2020.0i48.a41994 . published

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The saint who heals: performances and subjectivities in Sidi ¿Ali ben Hamdouche's mausoleum, Morocco

Bartel, Bruno Ferraz, Antropolitica - Revista Contemporanea de Antropologia. 218 - 245. 1. 48. 2020. https://doi.org/10.22409/antropolitica2020.0i48.a653 . 10.22409/antropolitica2020.0i48.a653 . published

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Power, knowledge and performance in Morocco: moqaddemine and jnun in the ritual of Hamadsha's brotherhood

Bartel, Bruno, Pós. 135 - 166. 1. 15. 2020. https://periodicos.unb.br/index.php/revistapos/article/view/29463 . published

Online resource

Orientalism

Bartel, Bruno, 2019. https://twitter.com/diasporaoficial/status/1128321892513923072?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Eprofile%3Adiasporaoficial&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.revistadiaspora.com.br%2F2017%2F02%2F12%2Fler-e-ver-o-oriente-medio%2F .

Book chapter

Diversity and religious adversity in schools: conflicts and hierarchy in the public space of Rio de Janeiro

Bartel, Bruno; RISCADO, Juliana Rodrigues; BONIOLO, Roberta Machado; PINTO, Vinicius Cruz Pinto; SILVA, Boris Maia, As crenças na igualdade. Ana Paula Mendes de Miranda; Fábio Reis Mota; Lenin dos Santos Pires. Autografia. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2019. published

Magazine article

What is the Middle East?

Bartel, Bruno, Revista Diápora. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2019. http://www.revistadiaspora.org/2019/02/17/o-que-e-oriente-medio/ .

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RACHIK, Hassan. 2012. Le proche et le lointain: Un siècle d’anthropologie au Maroc

Bartel, Bruno, R@u. 438 - 442. 1. 10. 2018. http://www.rau.ufscar.br/?p=1265 . published

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When Law and Islam go together in Ramadan

Bartel, Bruno, Revista Diáspora. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2018. http://www.revistadiaspora.org/2018/05/14/quando-a-lei-e-o-isla-andam-juntos-no-ramadan-marroquino/ .

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Islam and Rock 'n' Roll: a controversial relationship

Bartel, Bruno, Revista Diáspora. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2018. https://www.revistadiaspora.com.br/2018/10/16/isla-e-rockn-roll-uma-relacao-controversa/ .

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The dynamics of baraka in the mausoleum of Sidi ‘Ali ben Hamdouche, Morocco

Bartel, Bruno, Equatorial. 11 - 37. 4. 3. 2017. https://periodicos.ufrn.br/equatorial/article/view/14906 . published

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Sufism in Moroccan politics

Bartel, Bruno, Revista Diáspora. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2017. https://www.revistadiaspora.com.br/2017/06/20/o-sufismo-na-politica-marroquina/ .

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"Je suis Charlie", from a Moroccan point of view: issues of change in the Paris bombings, 2015

Bartel, Bruno Ferraz, Cadernos de Campo (São Paulo, 1991). 131 - 150. 25. 25. 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v25i25p131-150 . 10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v25i25p131-150 . published

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BARTEL, Bruno Ferraz. 2016. Representation, pilgrimage, sacrifice and possession in the cult of Aisha Qandisha

Bartel, Bruno, Al-Irfan. 275 - 278. 2. 2016. https://cvc.cervantes.es/literatura/alirfan/pdf/alirfan2/alirfan_2_17.pdf . published

Book

Representation, pilgrimage, sacrifice and possession in the cult of Aisha Qandisha

Bartel, Bruno, Autografia. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2016. published

Magazine article

Disputes about the Sacred: What does the freedom of the press and the figure of the Prophet Mohammed have in common?

Bartel, Bruno, Revista Diáspora. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 2016. https://www.revistadiaspora.com.br/2016/02/22/disputas-sobre-o-sagrado-o-que-a-liberdade-de-imprensa-e-a-figura-do-profeta-mohammed-tem-em-comum/ .

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THIRANAGAMA, Sharika. 2011. In my Mother’s House: Civil War in Sri Lanka

Bartel, Bruno, R@u . 111 - 114. 2. 7. 2015. http://www.rau.ufscar.br/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Serto%CC%83es_7-2_08-Resenha_BrunoBartel.pdf . published

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AMAR, Paul. 2013. The Security Archipelago: Human-Security States, Sexuality Politics, and the End of Neoliberalism

Bartel, Bruno, Cadernos de Campo (Unesp). 219 - 224. 19. 2015. https://periodicos.fclar.unesp.br/cadernos/article/view/7485 . published

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